I paid for an original backers pack way the hell back in 2012 (and never any money since) before we knew this was going to happen. I've played it exactly one time since then. At this point I don't really expect to ever get anything worth my money. C'est La Vie

Blue,

I'm responding to this a bit late in the day so I don't know if you'll see it. But if you need to run old programs then I can suggest an emulator. Provided your machine is fast enough you can emulate up to a Pentium II 450 with quite a bit of ram and all the old school hardware you could want. To run a system like that requires a very modern CPU of the most current gen though. But it's a suggestion anyway!

https://86box.net/ - If you need help setting it up let me know. The biggest thing is you need to get all the ROMs which are a separate download.

I'm a day 1 founding member here and I've also been coming to this site since the 90's and I honestly don't want it to ever go away. If you offered another higher tier I'd sign up! Merch would also be amazing, I'd 100% buy a coffee mug, t-shirt and maybe a zip up hoodie if they were offered! Just make sure the clothes are high quality and not shit tier! I don't mind paying a premium to make sure it'll last years.

I don't comment here as often as others, in fact lately a lot of my replies are to this anniversary post you make every year. However, Bluesnews has been my homepage for over 20 years straight. It was my homepage in the late 90's and then there was a stint in the very early 00's where my homepage was HardOCP (RIP) instead but after they started filling their page to the brim with ads everywhere I gave up and set it back here. I've been a paid supporter since the day you offered it because now with Anand's site finally sailing into the sunset (Anand himself left it many years ago) there's just nothing left of the 90's anymore and I don't want you to go either.

I know in my heart that at some point all things end but this website, moreso than ANY OTHER in my entire life, has been part of my life for more than half my life at this point. I don't know how long this place has left, I don't know how long I have left, but I'm hoping it continues until we're all old and grey! From a lifelong viewer, thank you so much!

I don't really talk much about my family on the internet but today seems like a good day to talk about it and this seems like a good place as any... My dad killed himself in 2009 due to untreated mental illness but because of everything he did to destroy the family before then I don't really miss him. Might sound harsh but life really was better off without him in his final years. My mom is still alive but she is NOT taking care of herself and recently had a heart attack. I don't know how much time she's got left but I figure it's not very long. For the last 10 years or so I've had this internal struggle with my mom and my now step dad. We have completely opposing beliefs in literally everything and they take it to such an extreme that I don't even want to associate with them at all anymore. But then again, it's my mom... sigh... wtf do you do in this situation? It's really hard and something I struggle with on a near weekly basis. I don't really talk to them much anymore. They made a decision a couple years ago to take advantage of the housing boom and sold their house (never even offered it to me) for twice what it was worth and took everything and moved 8 hours away from me. Then my mom is upset I don't visit more often... sigh...

On top of all that within the last couple of years I've learned I've got my own terminal illness that WILL kill me... slowly. There's no cure, and there's no real treatment either aside from making it progress a bit slower. I'm 44 this year and I'll be lucky to make to 55. The only consolation in this is that my doctor told me it was literally just bad luck and a mutation that caused it. It wasn't my diet, it wasn't inherited, or anything else. So at least it wasn't my fault.

Life just fucking sucks sometimes.

Blue, I think you meant half a million words... and actually the LOTR trilogy isn't really that long winded. Tolkein was a master of condensing information. If you look at someone like Robert Jordan who wrote single books that were longer than the entire LOTR trilogy, you'll understand!

Sepharo wrote on Sep 12, 2024, 03:18:

The Half Elf wrote on Sep 12, 2024, 02:16:

Sepharo wrote on Sep 11, 2024, 20:48:
Papa Prez plz

Oh no no no no sir. Some of us Blue's Elders have already asked and been on the reserve list for many many moons.

You think you beat me to it eh? That's cute

Laughs in 4 digit User ID...

I ended up getting it and stayed up too late last night playing. Very well put together game! You were right saying it's better than Endless Sky!

Do you mean Endless Sky? The open source space exploration game? If so, that is very high praise indeed! It was already on my wishlist, maybe I need to actually just get it.

It's not a souls game, it's an action rpg more like God of War.

I would like to point out that I am using Linux (Linux Mint to be specific) and simply installing this from steam and running it caused my entire system to lock up and I had to hard reset. Bad juju!

I got through the menus, picked which soundtrack etc, when it went to start the game (or go to the main menu, i don't know, it didn't make it that far!) my screen just went black and then my monitor turned off as it got no signal. The music was still playing in the background but not even my keyboard LEDs were responding anymore. Fun times...

Japan? But they are in Paris this year... I'm so confused.

To this day, I still use my original Max Payne mouse-pad I got as part of the deluxe version from Fry's in 2001.

Another vote for Revo, use it at work (my home system is no longer Windows due to all the issues).

Hours of playing Llamatron on the Amiga 500 in the late 80's!

I only tried Generals Zero Hour but I can confirm for that, no origin in sight.

I paid 30% more than that price for my lunch today. 10 bucks is a damn impulse buy! Snagged!

I don't normally care about my birthday as I'm too logical to enjoy most things like holidays and everything else as it's all been too commercialized in the modern era. I also couldn't tell you anyone else's birthday in my entire life except my mom. However, I make an exception for today as it's the only time I have a real birthday as I'm one of the lucky few to be born on a leap day. I always get asked when do I celebrate it on non-leap years. Why would anyone celebrate it March 1st? That's the wrong month! Besides my grandfather on my dad's side was born on Feb 28th so that makes it even easier.

I don't consider myself special for being born on a particularly rare day. I do however consider my life special as I was never supposed to be born (long story) and even when I was kid I remember going to the doctor and being told my birth circumstances would mean I'd never reach my full potential physically or mentally. I simply ignored it. I'm not 6ft tall but I'm not short either and my mental faculties are perfectly fine! (for whatever counts as fine in this fucked up world!)

I sincerely hope Blue is okay. I've been here for more than 25 years now and I honestly can't remember the last time he didn't post without letting us know.

Gotta say, I'm a bit salty. I just bought the game so I'm not very far along and most of my playtime was after hotfix #4, now all my saves are useless AND I can't play them this morning before work like I was expecting when I first got up. I have exactly one save from before the patch and it's basically about 5 minutes after the first part of the game is over. Sigh...